Tom   (1984 - Kingsoft)
Alternative title: Tom Thumb  (Anirog UK release)
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Tom is a scrolling platform game where you take the role of Tom as he explores the Tomb of Pharaoh Manilo for fabulous wealth. As you explore the Tomb, you will encounter various creatures as well as traps that include spikes and floors that disappear when walked on. If you touch a creature, trap or fall from a certain height then you lose one of five lives. Blocking certain routes are doors that require keys to be found and used on them. Ladders can be used to move up or down to other platforms and floors of the Tomb. As well as the having the ability to jump, you also have the ability to run.

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Looks suspiciously as if it was scaled up from the Vic-20 version rather than custom built for the C64 (The same can be said for the C64 version of Bongo). Udo Gertz certainly seemed more at home on the C64's lower-spec cousins than the machine itself, though spectacularly so, as games such as "Winter Events" outclass many a C64 equivalent. I never really took to any version of this game, though: too long, fiddly, and repetitive, with a myriad of cheap deaths around every corner. At least the C64 version didn't have the unavoidable killer land-fish (Not a very dignified or fair method of execution ...).


http://www.lemon64.com/?game_id=2670
http://www.mobygames.com
